Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>     
>>> No, of course not, I use qemu from the command line and would benefit 
>>>       
>> >from -net bridge.  My badly-conveyed objection is that qemu should not 
>>     
>>> take a system management role (and enforce system-wide policies) but 
>>> leave that to system management tools.
>>>       
>> I do not consider this system management functional no more than I see 
>> providing a global configuration file as system management functional.  
>> They are both mechanisms.  The ACL file is a mechanism just like VNC 
>> sasl ACLs are a mechanism.
>>     
>
> That's why I would like there to be options to either pass to the
> helper program, or specify a different helper program.  (Sorry if
> that's already in the patches - for some reason I received 0/4 but
> didn't receive the 4 patch emails).
>
> There's no need for QEMU to be cleverer than that, and that puts the
> whole policy in the hands of the user - where it should be.
>
> It'd still install the default helper you've provided and use it by
> default, of course.
>   

That's already how it behaves.  You can say -net 
bridge,helper=/usr/local/bin/my-helper

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori